Theo: ‘Technology only came out, like, 20 years ago’.
Category Archives: …What did you just say?
“you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.” – e. e. cummings
Mabel: “Mama, when I have a bad dream and I wake up scared I think about you and that makes me feel better.”
‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live’ – Charles Bukowski
Mabel: I wish we could get inside the T.V! Mama! The dog is kissing you! That means he likes you. I think he loves you, Mama. He is kissing your face, and I am rubbing the kisses in! So they don’t blow off in the wind!
It is 6.30 am.
‘I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and dosen’t mind leading.’ – Amy Poehler
Mabel: …Stop saying bossy!
Me: Well, stop being so bossy then.
Mabel: I CAN’T!
A Snapshot: Fannies and Fairytales.
They’re sitting at the kitchen table, eating berry yoghurt with teaspoons. Mabel has asked me for two baby sisters for her birthday.
‘I’ll name them Elsa and Ana’, she tells me.
‘I want to have a baby when I grow up’ remarks her brother.
‘You can’t lay a baby!’ she tells him with authority. ‘You don’t have a fanny to lay it with!’
‘Okay then’; he pauses for thought. ‘You can have a baby when you grow up and give it to me!’.
‘Like Rumpelstiltskin!’ she roars.
They think they’re very funny.
B(r)eak on through, to the other side.
Mabel: ‘You need to always have a big idea. Like that chicken that crossed the road’.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone, or something.
Mabel: ‘This is so spicy I have to eat it with one eye closed!’
She says, of a kiwifruit.
